U.S. News highlights success of UT effort
I’m a few months late on this, but I don’t think the message has diminished any.
The University’s Blue and Gold Scholarship Program has been getting a lot of attention for the opportunities it offers to select Pell Grant-eligible public school students with a 3.0 GPA, but a recent mention of the program in U.S. News and World Report helps exemplify one of the families impacted by the scholarship.
The story, discussing How to Find Money for College in a Recession, highlights student Karisha Sutton:
You can indeed, says Karisha Sutton, a B-plus high school senior from Columbus, Ohio, whose dad’s disability prevents him from working and whose mom works as a home health aide. Sutton was about to give up on going straight to college because her family couldn’t afford the few thousand dollars it would cost to send her to a nearby state university. But then she heard about the University of Toledo’s offer of free tuition to low-income students from several areas of Ohio, including Columbus. Newly hopeful, she filed several last-minute scholarship applications. A thick acceptance letter from Toledo and a few private scholarships have turned her into an excited student and aspiring doctor. Now, she tells her friends who are feeling discouraged: “Don’t just give up!”
While this student’s experience was shared broadly in the national media, the increases in UT scholarship monies in the last few years have helped make more common this very experience.
And for those who are having trouble making ends meet, be sure to contact Financial Aid to see what assistance might be available.
Jon Strunk is UT’s media relations manager, a graduate of UT’s College of Arts and Sciences, a student in its College of Business Administration and a man constantly wary of his cell phone ringing. With the media having only so much space and so much time to tell a story, Jon has reserved this space on the World Wide Web to highlight, analyze, complain, lobby, beg, apologize and comment on media coverage of UT, higher education and, from time to time, his half-hearted quest to replace his ’96 Mercury Sable.